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This story gets stranger as the 3rd precinct police building has burned to the ground in Minneapolis, Minnesota. If police have gotten bolder in resorting to deadly force with suspects … Read More
It is unfortunate that there is a history of more fulsome street confrontations that involve a variety of actors, some opportunists that are simply criminal rather than political, others who … Read More
Updated Friday, May 29, 2020 · 4:36:46 AM +00:00 · Dan K Political Wire, where I found the story this morning, has modified it slightly, saying that “An earlier … Read More
I agree: Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned the “horrific killing” of George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man who died in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department … Read More
I watched the movies Kill Bill 1&2 for the umpteenth time last night. I endured the blood and guts, the pulpy glamorizing of violence, and the catchy soundtrack, most of … Read More
This fucking guy: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis has joined a growing list of litigants challenging the Walz administration over the Minnesota governor’s shutdown orders to curb the spread … Read More
Mark your calendars: Joe Biden will be a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday, marking his fifth visit to the show and first since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee. The visit … Read More
The best of the best: a budding Gung-Ho Psy-Ops recruit. https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1213215518502608902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Energetic but ineffectual young conservative operative Jacob Wohl is all-in on the prospect of war with Iran. Wohl is so into … Read More
The House voted both impeachment articles and Trump seemed to be in denial during his speech in Battle Creek Michigan at a 10,000 seat arena. “I'm the first person to … Read More
Last winter, CNN for weeks stood by its extraordinary and inexplicable decision to hire Sarah Isgur Flores, a career Republican Party operative with absolutely no journalism experience, to be the network’s … Read More
Whether among a family, in the workplace, or on the web, gossip operates as cancel culture and at scale is easily monetized by tabloid media. The production of pariahs is … Read More
Republicans sure like to throw the word “treason” around these days. Unfortunately, they tend to throw it at everyone but our very guilty pr*sident. Danielle Stella, who is running for … Read More
Trump will make the nation go blue, if only because of his shtick, doing his insult-comic bit at the campaign rallies. The problem is that he truly believes that these … Read More
Trump is at the Minneapolis Target Center tonight for yet another campaign rally. Below is the Daniel Dale tweet thread in anticipation of another even more stupid Trump statement. It … Read More
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see … Read More
This is a great idea. We need to see more of this. First Avenue — a legendary Minneapolis club where part of Prince’s 1984 film, “Purple Rain,” was shot — has … Read More
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey just wants drumpf To pay in advance, as any sane person would. So drumpf sent him a nasty tweet — entirely predictable. Hizzoner had this to … Read More
Not sure this is the best message to be trying to sell to Wisconsin dairy farmers sixteen months before an election, but you go, Sonny. Minneapolis Star Tribune “President Donald … Read More
Three months ago the Associated Press updated its influential AP Stylebook, which news editors and producers across the country use as a guideline in terms of what language to use … Read More
So if you had one of the most fatuous, lurid, crass, and tasteless shows of the ‘90s, for Christ’s sake, and you were best known for opening a vault on … Read More
Every so often one encounters a myth about electric vehicles that's so odd it makes you scratch your head. When it happens just once, it's easy to dismiss, but when … Read More
We're going to kill some medical debt! Annapolis, Maryland did it. (“Annapolis Church Wipes Out $2M In Medical Debt For Strangers”) Minneapolis did it. (“Charity buys and erases crushing past-due … Read More
The results are in: With 77% of votes cast in favor, MoveOn members in Minnesota’s 5th District have voted overwhelmingly to endorse Ilhan Omar for re-election to Congress! Representative Ilhan … Read More
Here is another report about how farmers, especially Kentucky farmers, are being squeezed by Trump’s tariffs, but they still love them some Trump: President Trump doubled down on his fight … Read More
That’s not a place you wanna be, sleeping with the enemy, you know Roger Hodgson I can’t imagine why I should even have to say this, but apparently I do. In the … Read More
MINNESOTA — MoveOn Political Action members in Minnesota’s 5th congressional district have voted overwhelmingly to endorse Ilhan Omar for Congress, with 71% of votes cast in favor of backing Omar. … Read More
Yesterday morning I got a text from my friend Stephanie White that said, simply, “Sad news about Tony.” I hadn’t heard any news but I knew which “Tony” she meant. … Read More
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